Monday, February 1, 2010

Beginnings...


The idea to start this blog came about after discovering this notice on the door of the old post office in Birr, Co. Offaly. It is there to inform customers that all public facilities offered by An Post have been re-located, from a beautiful 1903 brick building fronting onto Emmet Square, the central plaza of the town, to what can best be described as a kiosk inside a supermarket on Main Street. I began to take notice of how the service has been undergoing a huge transformation in recent times and how this has represented itself in the disappearance of the architectural typology from our streets.